F6  L-band Microwave Remote Sensing of Land and Ocean Surfaces

Friday, January 8  13:20-17:00  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Simon Yueh, David Le Vine, Roger Lang

13:20  F6-1  RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN L-BAND OBSERVATIONS OF OCEAN SALINITY BY AQUARIUS

Emmanuel P. Dinnat*1, David M. Le Vine2, Yan Soldo2, Gary Lagerloef3, Thomas Meissner4

1Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA-GSFC and Chapman University, Greenbelt, MD
2Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
3Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA
4Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA


13:40  F6-2  L-BAND GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION FOR RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE SALINITY AND WIND FROM SMAP DATA

Simon Yueh*, Alexander Fore, Wenqing Tang, Akiko Hayashi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California


14:00  F6-3  EVALUATION OF THE SMAP L1 RADAR BACKSCATTER DATA AND EFFECTS OF TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY ON SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION

Ruzbeh Akbar*, Mahta Moghaddam

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA


14:20  F6-4  SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING L-BAND SMAP RADAR DATA: FORWARD MODEL EVALUATIONS AND INVERSION IMPROVEMENTS

Seungbum Kim*1, Jakob Van Zyl1, Mahta Moghaddam2, Leung Tsang3, Dara Entekhabi4, Simon Yueh1

1Caltech/JPL, Pasadena Ca
2Univ Southern California, Los Angeles CA
3Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
4MIT, Massachusetts MA


14:40  F6-5  MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF COHERENT BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM CROPLANDS AND FORESTS

Amir Azemati*, Mahta Moghaddam

University of Southern California, Los Angeles


15:20  F6-6  POST-BETA STATUS OF THE SMAP PASSIVE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT

Steven Chan*1, Rajat Bindlish2, Peggy O'Neill3, Eni Njoku1, Tom Jackson2, Andreas Colliander1, Fan Chen2

1NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


15:40  F6-7  ANTENNA PATTERN CORRECTIONS FOR THE COMBINED RADAR / RADIOMETER (COMRAD) GROUND-BASED SMAP SIMULATOR

Mehmet Kurum*1, Roger Lang1, Peggy ONeill2, Alicia Joseph2, Michael Cosh3, Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj1, Mehmet Ogut4

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC
2Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
3Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD
4Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO


16:00  F6-8  PALS (PASSIVE ACTIVE L-BAND SYSTEM) SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS IN SMAPVEX15 (SMAP VALIDATION EXPERIMENT 2015)

Andreas Colliander*1, Sidharth Misra1, Thomas Jackson2, Chun-Sik Chae1, Michael Cosh2, Wade Crow2, Simon Yueh1

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
2Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA ARS, Beltsville, Maryland


16:20  F6-9  L-BAND SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING USING A SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM

Eryan Dai*1, Albin J. Gasiewski1, Maciej Stachura2, Jack Elston2

1ECEE, Colorado University at Boulder, Boulder
2ECEE, Black Swift Technologies (BST) LLC, Boulder


16:40  F6-10  A NONLINEAR COUNTS TO ANTENNA TEMPERATURE ALGORITHM FOR A TOTAL POWER RADIOMETER WITH EXTERNAL CALIBRATION AND NOISE DIODE INJECTION

Faisal A. Alquaied*, W.Linwood Jones

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando,FL